Here’s a cheery article that offers five climate-related mega-predictions for the coming decade. Though it’s insightful at a certain level, most what the author presents is essentially guaranteed to happen. Climate denial ends, followed by the mobilization of capital to …
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Trump’s Fraudulent Charity and His Qualifications for U.S. President
Trump just wrote his second check as restitution for the criminal fraud he perpetrated through his fake charity, using the funds that were donated to develop a cure for childhood cancer for his own enrichment. I run into people visiting …
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Offshore Wind–We’re Talkin’ BIG
The Netherlands recently installed an offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 12 MW, sufficient to power 30,000 homes. Its blades are the length of footballs fields, and it stands almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower. The cost-engineering of …
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Notes on New Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Here’s a vertical axis wind turbine called “Harmony” whose uniqueness, according to its inventor, is that its operator can open or close to cover more or less area. He erroneously believes that “for every wind speed, there is an optimum …
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This Year in Climate: 2019
My colleague, aeroponics expert Rafael Quezada, writes about the meme here, “In 2019, for the most part, the picture was bleak; but for all the overwhelmingly bad news, there were also some really powerful and momentous moments of action and …
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Obviously, Cutting Food Stamps To the Poorest Americans and Their Children Is Cruel, But That’s Not the Worst Part
Let’s begin with an explanation of the photo here; it was taken in Florida, a state where more than half of all children lives in or near poverty. The Trump administration claims that its decision to take food stamps away …
New York Times Op-Ed: Australia “Committing Climate Suicide”
Here’s an opinion piece on Australia’s struggles with climate-fueled eco-destruction from local novelist Richard Flanagan that begins: Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its …
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Reforming Christianity
If you read what the atheist intellectuals / secular humanists of our time (principally Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennit) say about religion, you learn why they think the entire subject needs to disappear from our society …
Jimmy Carter’s Old, But Just as Potent a Force for Compassion as Ever
Most people improve in character with age; they gain wisdom, become more honest, more generous and less hostile. Most are able to look at their lives in grander terms, and some come to see humankind as a whole, struggling to …
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Made Me Chuckle
Getting back to work after the New Year’s holiday, I needed a good laugh. This got the job done nicely. That’s part of the beauty of cell phones; there are now more than five billion amateur photo-comedians.
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